Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Bits and pieces by Lois

Tick tock

This advertisement appeared in a news magazine called The Sphere, on July 14th 1900, for a ‘field’ watch at the cost of £25. According to some calculations that I have seen, this would be about £2,500 today. This jewellers was founded in 1847 by  James William Benson and Samuel Suckley Benson; they did not just […]

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Pigskin putties and murder by monkey

I can’t at the moment find any information about the London Shoe Co., Ltd,, of Queen Victoria Street in London, and New Bond Street, also in London. H.R.H. The Crown Prince of Greece, I think may have been Constantine I, who ascended the throne in 1913, when his father George I was assassinated in Thessaloniki. Constantine […]

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Our revels are now ended

There was some very, very sad news in our village last night. My heart goes out to those who are so sad right now, and my thoughts are with them. Our revels are now ended Our revels are now ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, […]

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